West Virginia Workers: Verizon-Frontier Deal Would Be a Disaster
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Nearly 200 workers from West Virginia, including members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the West Virginia AFL-CIO and community supporters rallied this afternoon at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, D.C., to protest the sale of landlines in their state, which they say would be disastrous.
Verizon is selling its landlines in West Virginia and 13 other states to Frontier Communications, a small Connecticut-based rural phone company. The sale would put $3.3 billion into Verizon’s coffers, along with a $600 million tax break, and leave Frontier buried in debt.
